Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
Ubuntu's OK. It supports a fair chunk of legacy hardware and it's a reasonable distro on which to cut your teeth. Once you get a feel for it, you can progress to better builds that need a little more understanding.
Not sure you would need a different Linux distro Harry...you can just install the packages you need that Ubuntu doesn't have as default. (Putting them in /opt of course to show they are not part of the distro)